The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

Are you joining a conversation or taking it over? Stay aware of how you join a conversation and of your effect on a conversation.

Leaders who are silent and do nothing are as guilty and do worse than those who commit these horrific attacks

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

I don't have any tricky plays. I'd rather have tricky players.

Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

I’m a Jersey girl, no one can knock me down

If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.